I find it a little weird that we worry about random searched. When I was out patrolling we's inform the police of "suspicious" characters on the streets. I am assuming if you reported that, you would expect the police to investigate and search. Now we complain if this may happen to us. Some of us looks suspicious as well... ;)
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Melanie Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Bev. > I was wondering what the legal aspect on this is. > Does anyone know if police are allowed to ask you for identification at any > point in time? Like they do in other countries. > And if you don't have identification on you they can, if they want, take > you > to the station until someone comes and identifies you positively. > I don't think that's such a bad idea. > Do we have that here? > melanie > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bev > Sent: 31 March 2010 10:44 AM > To: The Observatory Neighbourhood watch > Subject: [obsnw] CONCERNING "RANDOM SEARCHES" BY THE SAPS OR ANYONE ELSE > > An excerpt taken from Supt v.d. Riel's response to Trevor Hughes' memo/ > email to the SAPS about the police wanting to search him..... > > RANDOM SEARCHES IN PUBLIC MUST NEVER BE EXECUTED WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE > PERSON TO BE SEARCHED (UNLESS THE PERSON WAS INVOLVED IN A > CRIME.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe > from this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en
